RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2015:1712)

high Nessus Plugin ID 85974

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for chromium-browser.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:1712 advisory.

Chromium is an open-source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Chromium to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Chromium. (CVE-2015-1291, CVE-2015-1292, CVE-2015-1293, CVE-2015-1294, CVE-2015-1295, CVE-2015-1296, CVE-2015-1297, CVE-2015-1298, CVE-2015-1299, CVE-2015-1300, CVE-2015-1301)

All Chromium users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Chromium version 45.0.2454.85, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Chromium must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL chromium-browser package based on the guidance in RHSA-2015:1712.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 85974

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-1712.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/17/2015

Updated: 4/15/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1301

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1299

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:chromium-browser, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/3/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/3/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1291, CVE-2015-1292, CVE-2015-1293, CVE-2015-1294, CVE-2015-1295, CVE-2015-1296, CVE-2015-1297, CVE-2015-1298, CVE-2015-1299, CVE-2015-1300, CVE-2015-1301

CWE: 200, 416

RHSA: 2015:1712

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